Makassar Is More Slovenly

The goverment of Makassar city turns out to encourage a program namely Makassar is not slovenly (adj/jorok) or locally well-known as Makassar Tidak Rantasa’. Many people have been familiar with the meaning of  “slovenly”, which means more and less, dirty. As the part of governor’s vision to keep Makassar clean, it will ensure (V/memastikan) the trash (n/sampah) to be transported from public dustbin (n/tempat sampah) to the city central disposal (n/tempat pembuangan sampah). It is thus expected to create a public awareness to cooporate with the distric goverment in cleaning maintenance of Makassar city. This paper will discuss the issue of Makassar is not slovenly.
As metropolitan people, many are not really concerned with environmental hygiene (n/kesehatan) and cleanliness, especially in our city, Makassar. The lack of public awareness and knowledge towards hygiene has inspired Makassar governor, Danny Pomanto, to initiate a program labeled Makassar Tidak Rantasa’ or Makassar is not slovenly. This is expected to have metropolitanians realize the urgency of hygiene as modern people’s behaviour. In addition, it expectedly becomes an inspiration for urbanized community being discipline responding to clean city effort. Apart from the intention to social change for being more clean, Makassar Tidak Rantasa’ is expected to be a stepping stone to grab back Adipura, an appreciation symbol of regional level cleanliness award in Indonesia.
In application, this program starts from distributing the number of garbages over the side of main roads in Makassar. The less number of garbage can is one of the major causes for environmental pollution and slovenly area, particularly in road vicinity. As the consequence, government then makes one of service following the Makassar Tidak Rantasa’, i.e. Bank Sampah (trash bank), making trash collected in certain number subtitutable (adj/dapat ditukar) with rice. This program intends to attract societies to collect garbage which will then be submitted to designated (v/ditunjuk,ditugaskan) governmental stands. After the submission, they will give rice as the reward.

Above all, Makasssar Tidak Rantasa’ seemingly is not more than a word. We can see that the implementation of the program is not running well, even makassar is more slovenly. Many taglines put in street billboard only gives dirty impression instead. Until now the banner is not well cared by the governor. Some billboard turned out to have broken and been recklessly (adv/serampangan, tidak diperhatikan) scattered (v/berserakan) around the street, nailed in trees, and other public facilities. How come Makassar is not filthy (adj/kotor, dekil)! The society will not be interested by only giving a tagline without controlling. Instead of making them awared, the society is prepared more not to care about the tagline which spread around the city. They also feel that the banner is just only for electoral campaign purpose. So, we need someone who can control and make evaluation toward the governor program.
Furthermore, the main cause of dirty derives from the town alley (n/lorong). Life style of filthy mostly commences (v/mulai) from the alley in this city. Therefore, for making city clean, the governor have to give more attention to the society who live in vicinity (n/sekitaran) of the alley. Beside that, the governor have to appoint someone who is competence and reliable (adj/dapat dipercaya) to be responsible on overseeing (v/mengontrol) that program, instead of merely (adj/hanya selalu, melulu) providing a dustbin in everywhere without control.

To conclude, narrow space in heterogen community has caused all the problems, one of them is the slovenliness. So, after seing this condition, concerning on the town alley will be more effective to reduce the number of slovenliness rather than putting banner in city’s billboard or, the worse, in every city’s spot and it also will make makassar clean or not slovenly, or tidak rantasa’.

Written by : Dwi Febry | Media Department of HEC

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